Brooklyn’s Sam Kogon cites the late-’60s baroque/psych era as his main inspiration, and he’s actually gone on to play with some of his heroes. He sang lead vocals in the 2015 line up of the legendary band The Left Banke, and has also backed original Beach Boy Al Jardine in his band Al Jardine & Friends. His next solo album, “Psychic Tears”, which was produced by Sam Evian and comes out on October 28th via Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. The album features the song “I Was Always Talking,” a collaboration with Frankie Cosmos (aka Greta Kline).
Greta duets with Sam and also sings some harmonies, and her style pairs well with Sam’s. Here’s what he tells us about the song:
The song is about a friend break-up. Without giving away too much, I wrote it when I was beginning to realize that some of my friends I still knew from college were no longer my friends anymore. Funny how that works…Anyways, in my head I heard it as a duet, with each verse sung by each friend. So after my band and I recorded the song, I asked my friend Greta to see if she’d be interested in singing on the track. She listened to a rough mix and (luckily) dug it. One evening this past February she came over and tracked her vocals in my guest bedroom closet. It was a great session.
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